note that I made it "sync" and not "async", otherwise when you first select the flac, if not in cache, you mustexit from ps3 browser and select same flac again.On the other hand is better to have a speedy pc

Many thanks, finally got around to trying this out on my system today, and it works great. A practical solution to having lossless streaming on PS3 (saving 10,000 tracks in WAV is not practical!)

Even on low-power systems, this works really well. I used it on my Marvell Kirkwood ARM based sheevaplug, and there is a small (2-3 second) delay between tracks while it transcodes, but that is' perfectly acceptible IMHO, and it does cache it seems, so any previous transcoded jobs won't need it next time.

Going to sticky this, it's so good...

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I have got a Mybook World edition as well, but the old blue ring model in raid configuration. I have managed to install twonky 6.1 on it and enable the transcoding features. I am currently testing out MKV's and AVI's being transcoded to MP4's with live on the fly transcoding with ffmpeg. Seems to be working so far, but I am concerned with the lack of power my unit has. 30mb of memory and a 200mhz processor. I fear the live transcoding will get glitchy. I am 5 minutes in no glitches into a Soprano's episode as we speak. Fingers crossed.

Well I made it through streaming two episodes of Soprano's to my PS3 last night. It started a little rough the first 15 minutes of the first episode was a bit glitchy, every five minutes the audio would mute then the video would freeze shortly there after, I would have to pause for 10 seconds and play and it would pick up where it left off. This was happening because the twonky server hadn't finished rebuilding the database of all my media and my resource starved nas couldn't keep up. After the first 15 minutes of glitches it smoothed out and not a single glitch after that.

I have tested AVI's and MP4s and they work just fine. Cant get my MKV's to stream as of yet, just hangs my PS3 for about 1 minute and then disconnects the media server. I will do some reading around and see if I can find a solution or not. So far not a bad result I would say for a POS used nas.

Just to report. I had huge problems getting this to work on Twonkymedia 6.x on Linux (it worked great on v5). The latest RC of 6.0.2 fixes a bug.

I can report lossless FLAC-WAV audio streaming on PS3 is now working again

I'm just doing some more testing, and trying to confirm if you still need to remove the -D from the Linux startup script, so it does not demonize the server process (there are reports that transcoding on Linux does not work if the server is demonized, which occurs by default in the startup script). Will update this post once I know.

EDIT: YES, you need to remove the -D from the Linux startup script for transcoding to work it seems....

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Newbie here - I have successfully installed TMS on my Maxtor Shared Storage II NAS and can stream MP3 to my PS3. I want to try and enable transcoding flac to wav as outlined here. I believe I understand everything except how to locate the flac2wav application itself. I looked around quite a bit on this site, ran some Google searches, etc. Do I need to use a wget or something from a specific feed?

Sorry for the basic nature of this question...I have some experience with this sort of thing, but not enough apparently...

[quote="PeeBee"]Read the first post again - flac2wav is a script you create directly yourself.

PB[/quote]

Thanks PB, yes, I realized that after posting...

============Completely OT, but there appears to be no appropriate forum for this - I have BBCode "Enabled" in my Control Panel, yet when in the Compose / Edit Post dialog, it always says "BBCode is Off"...

I have tried every transcoding profile in this thread, and about half-a-dozen others from other documents and threads I have found here. I have tried transcoding to .wav, .MP3, etc.I have been meticulous about my syntax, file placement and rights, etc., restarted the server between every change, and I still cannot get this to work - my PS3 always shows "Unsupported data".

I can successfully stream MP3s and I can also stream flac to other clients (that understand flac natively).

I am running 6.0.30 on a Maxtor Shared Storage II using the build specifically for that target, and I have also installed both ffmpeg and flac.

I am wondering if I should go back to an earlier build?

I also saw the post about removing the daemon command -D from the startup script - I thought this would be in /etc/init.d/rc.twonky, but I don't see that option there. Am I looking at the wrong file? I also examined the .html and .ini files in the TS home directory.

I am trying to do something similar with ALAC - WAV. My music collection is apple lossless. ALAC files are in M4A extension. However I am stuck and I can't get it to work. I have upgraded my WD Worldbook I (whitelight) with Twonky 7.0.9 Special NAS using this guidehttp://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t- ... book-worldThis is what I have done so far.

Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you, but you may want to post in the main server section if you don't get a response here. There are several transcoding experts that spend a lot of time there.

Thanks Rick and Mark.I have posted the same question in a couple of topic threads and I have been directed to Mark's topic on Community.twonky

As of yet I have not got a working solution on my NAS (WD MB World WL) but others have on WD MB Live which gives me hope.I tried to start fresh a couple of times by restoring current firmware and in the meantime the Twonky 7.x upgrade guide has been broken. So I have been trying to get it to work on the default twonky 5.1.9.FFMPEG command works converting while in an SSH connection. It is just whether twonky 5.x can transcode on the fly.I read somewhere that twonky can't transcode while daemonised is that true for the built-in twonky server 5.1.9?